# Three Laws of Robotics **Entity class:** Fictional governance framework **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Robotics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The Three Laws of Robotics are Isaac Asimov's fictional hierarchy requiring robots to avoid harming humans, obey orders, and preserve themselves in that priority order. ## Mechanism and significance The stories are valuable because they show that simple verbal laws become unstable when concepts such as harm, human, action, knowledge, and conflicting obligations meet reality. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[RL-Based Alignment]] · [[Machine Interpretation of Intent]] · [[AI Personhood]] · [[AI Rights]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.